Dirk Koetter: 'It took a lot of courage for the Glazers to bring me back'

Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Dirk Koetter was informed over the weekend that he will remain with the Bucs for the 2018 season despite the team’s brutal 5-11 record. The Glazer family along with general manager Jason Licht made the decision to keep him around for the new year and have given him another shot of leading this team to the playoffs by retaining him.

So during Sunday’s post game press conference at One Buc Place, coach Koetter took a few moments to discuss what remaining with the franchise means to him.

“It took a lot of courage for the Glazer family to bring me back [and] bring the staff back with the record what it is, but I really appreciate that,” Koetter said, according to Jenna Laine of ESPN. “We will start the evaluation process tomorrow. We will send these guys off on their vacation and we will start working on 2018.”

Koetter was hired to replace Lovie Smith after the Bucs suffered through back-to-back losing seasons. He did find a significant amount of success last year leading the Bucs to a 9-7 record, but unfortunately had a very bad streak of luck this season. Despite their Buccaneers’ severely unfortunate season however, he will be given another chance and opportunity to help this team make a comeback in 2018 – hopefully one that finally results in a long awaited playoff berth.

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